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This is a timeline of my livejournal.
Phase 1: Superficial Beginning
Phase 2: Transitional Meaninglessness
Phase 3: Enlightened/Condescending
Phase 1: This journal was started so that I could share "interesting" things from my life with whoever was on my friends list. And though those things I wrote were pertinent to my life at the time, they really weren't that important. However, this was admittedly superficial and really just another means through which to get attention. There's nothing wrong with having a superficial journal, in fact it is a good way to stop focusing on stressful aspects of your life and just making things light. And though I don't like admitting to indulging in superficiality, I know I do it.
Phase 2: After all these beginning entries there is a blurred time period of semi-apathy. Though I must admit some of the syntax was amusing, it held little real value. And I knew that at the time too. This stage brought together phase 1 and 3, as it had both elements of superficiality and condescending tones.
Phase 3: This is when I started to say real things more frequently. But they all dripped of condescending and it actually bothers me to read them because I know I always write like that and probably always will. This carried through summer when I felt like I was oh so special for being able to identify the causes of emotions and I thought I was in perfect control of my life when I wanted to be. That's pretty much where the journal is up to this point.
None of these phases really matter much, and I don't particularly like pandering to "readers". But in this case I want to change what my journal is about, for my sake more than anyone's. I think I need a journal to let out real feelings and not try to show people how much I know, just show them who I am really. So I'll be making different entries under different "Security" settings. I'll still put out quizzes and less important things in the public or friends only. But I'm also making a "Coterie" setting for those who want to read the more intimate details of what's going on in my life. So if you're interested let me know. I might already have you in that category, but let me know all the same. You have to apply for it, but honestly, that's not really going to happen because no one will do it.
Phase 1: Superficial Beginning
Phase 2: Transitional Meaninglessness
Phase 3: Enlightened/Condescending
Phase 1: This journal was started so that I could share "interesting" things from my life with whoever was on my friends list. And though those things I wrote were pertinent to my life at the time, they really weren't that important. However, this was admittedly superficial and really just another means through which to get attention. There's nothing wrong with having a superficial journal, in fact it is a good way to stop focusing on stressful aspects of your life and just making things light. And though I don't like admitting to indulging in superficiality, I know I do it.
Phase 2: After all these beginning entries there is a blurred time period of semi-apathy. Though I must admit some of the syntax was amusing, it held little real value. And I knew that at the time too. This stage brought together phase 1 and 3, as it had both elements of superficiality and condescending tones.
Phase 3: This is when I started to say real things more frequently. But they all dripped of condescending and it actually bothers me to read them because I know I always write like that and probably always will. This carried through summer when I felt like I was oh so special for being able to identify the causes of emotions and I thought I was in perfect control of my life when I wanted to be. That's pretty much where the journal is up to this point.
None of these phases really matter much, and I don't particularly like pandering to "readers". But in this case I want to change what my journal is about, for my sake more than anyone's. I think I need a journal to let out real feelings and not try to show people how much I know, just show them who I am really. So I'll be making different entries under different "Security" settings. I'll still put out quizzes and less important things in the public or friends only. But I'm also making a "Coterie" setting for those who want to read the more intimate details of what's going on in my life. So if you're interested let me know. I might already have you in that category, but let me know all the same. You have to apply for it, but honestly, that's not really going to happen because no one will do it.